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StillIRise1963

@StillIRise1963@mastodon.world

Interested in politics, race, culture, class and language. African American. Mother of twins. Former Entrepreneur, Editor, Translator, Proofreader, College Advisor for NYC educational nonprofit. Caretaker of elderly parents. Work in College Admissions and as EF Coach. Atheist. Cannabis user. Traveler. Lived in Spain for years, miss it. Occasional foul mouth. Avatar is a pic of my great grandmother, background is a blue and white antique Arabic mosaic roof tile from Andalucia. #nobridge

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Americans will take a drug off label to lose weight, but not a vaccine to save their organs from a plague.

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My sister adopted this dog from a kill shelter. She's had her for a little more than a week and she looks like a different person. Her name is Phoebe.🥰

Same dog one week later looking much healthier. She's sleeping with her paw in front of her.

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"No one will listen to you if you're angry when you talk about racism." Well, fuck, no one will listen when I'm not, so I'll do whatever the fuck I want, thank you very much.

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What if killing people wasn't how we solved problems. 🙄

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All basics are now luxuries. A home, rent, healthcare, a livable salary, vision care, dental care, basic human rights.

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If you didn't vaccinate your kid and they get measles with complications, please know it's all YOUR FAULT. You are a BAD PARENT.

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Rich people are under the mistaken impression that they have valuable thoughts.

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I speak about racism and Black people in the U.S. because it's what I know best, being an African American woman informed by my life experience here. The unsaid is that I'm also talking about all marginalized, oppressed groups at the same time, inclusive of everyone. There are parallels in our discrimination and treatment. And, we're all deserving of equal rights as human beings. It's never only about one group, it's about all groups, everyone.

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Wesleyan just banned legacy admissions. LET'S GO!

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When I advised POC college students, I encouraged all of them to go abroad for the whole of junior year. There were many obvious reasons for this, but I also wanted them to have a break from the racism here, and know they could live elsewhere, that they had choices.

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Seems to me it was the job of the press to figure out George Santos was a phony BEFORE the election.

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You can pick the sadist nazi narcissist who promises to put millions in camps, seeks SCOTUS approval to assassinate rivals and murder anyone he wants when he’s told you he has a VENDETTA, or you can pick the other guy who does some tangibly good things, even if there are other things we’d like to not happen or change, and doesn’t THREATEN OUR VERY LIVES.

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If your business doesn’t function properly without paying low wages to your employees, IT IS A FAILED BUSINESS.

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The colleges that ditch liberal arts are the colleges that will produce ignorant students incapable of recognizing threats to their freedom and autonomy.

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We don't need to agree on every single point, but we do need to totally agree about HUMAN RIGHTS for ALL.

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The news media is not "timid." They are fucking compromised by their owners.

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If you actually want to change EVERYTHING here, we need more than a president. We need to own 60 seats in the Senate and take the House. If you don't understand that, then you DON'T GET HOW THE GOVERNMENT WORKS.

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Around 2800 fucking billionaire assholes on this planet are making life miserable for 8 billion people. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

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When the police shoot your white kid under fascism, you'll receive just as much justice as Black parents do today.

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No one "accidentally" quotes Hitler.

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I want to see a movie where we band together across the globe to defeat fascism, the evils of capitalism and combat climate change with cool, new innovations.

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The U.S. is unsafe for human beings.

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How many motherfucking articles are going to be written feigning surprise that Elon Musk is a total fucking racist. Only white people are “surprised."🙄

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As you reflect on the events of the nation and the world, keep in mind that hatred is TAUGHT.

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"Kirk argued in the 1950s that if the American middle class — then under half of Americans — ever grew too large and well paid, then such access to “wealth” would produce a social disaster. His followers warned that under such circumstances minorities would forget their “place” in society, women would demand equality with men, and young people would no longer respect their elders.”

https://www.rawstory.com/mudsill-theory/

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